RIP, Leslie Nielsen
Nov. 28th, 2010 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lazypadawanLeslie Nielsen passed away this evening at the age of 84 from complications due to pneumonia.
For Gen-Xers, he was the funnyman who starred in "Airplane" and "The Naked Gun" movies, as well as the short-lived t.v. series "Police Squad." I was a big fan of "Police Squad," a hilarious spoof of '60s/'70s cop dramas:
"Police Squad" didn't last long on t.v., but it succeeded as the Naked Gun movies. Yes, those movies with O.J. Simpson:
Here's the clip from "Airplane" featuring his most famous line:
But he was in his younger days a serious actor, including in the 1956 sci-fi classic, "Forbidden Planet." Say, that yellow crawl looks familiar:
And here's the trailer for "Tammy And The Bachelor" with Debbie Reynolds from 1957:
For Gen-Xers, he was the funnyman who starred in "Airplane" and "The Naked Gun" movies, as well as the short-lived t.v. series "Police Squad." I was a big fan of "Police Squad," a hilarious spoof of '60s/'70s cop dramas:
"Police Squad" didn't last long on t.v., but it succeeded as the Naked Gun movies. Yes, those movies with O.J. Simpson:
Here's the clip from "Airplane" featuring his most famous line:
But he was in his younger days a serious actor, including in the 1956 sci-fi classic, "Forbidden Planet." Say, that yellow crawl looks familiar:
And here's the trailer for "Tammy And The Bachelor" with Debbie Reynolds from 1957:
